AI Transformation Contract Job Trends in England

AI Transformation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring AI Transformation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 515 602
Rank change year-on-year +20 +87 -
Contract jobs citing AI Transformation 22 16 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.079% 0.049% 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.057% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 0
10th Percentile £548 - -
25th Percentile £616 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £850 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% - -
75th Percentile £825 £956 -
90th Percentile £850 £1,043 -
UK median daily rate £700 £850 -
% change year-on-year -17.65% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

AI Transformation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,397 28,013 37,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.93% 86.36% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,099 17,122 25,667
10th Percentile £300 £313 £315
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £643 £656
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,574 1,187 1,474
10th Percentile £14.42 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +47.11%
75th Percentile £45.75 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -2.35% +45.65%

AI Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI Transformation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

AI Transformation job vacancy trend in England

AI Transformation
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AI Transformation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AI Transformation

AI Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI Transformation in England over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI Transformation in England

AI Transformation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI Transformation within the England region over the 6 months to 5 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +20 16 £700 -22.22% 3
South East +19 3 £625 -
East of England - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £850 -
North West - 1 £850 -
AI Transformation
UK

AI Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Copilot
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) BlazeMeter
3 3 (13.64%) GCP
4 2 (9.09%) Copilot Studio
4 2 (9.09%) Figma
4 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
1 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
1 3 (13.64%) JMeter
1 3 (13.64%) Locust
1 3 (13.64%) Selenium
2 1 (4.55%) Balsamiq
General
1 10 (45.45%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Legal
4 2 (9.09%) Marketing
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (4.55%) Aviation
5 1 (4.55%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Electronics
5 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.55%) Front Office
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Social Science
5 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Architect
1 4 (18.18%) Lead
2 3 (13.64%) Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
2 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Designer
3 2 (9.09%) Development Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Security Consultant
3 2 (9.09%) Service Designer
3 2 (9.09%) Software Development Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Technical Leader
3 2 (9.09%) Test Development Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Digital User Researcher
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Designer
4 1 (4.55%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) pytest
2 2 (9.09%) LangChain
2 2 (9.09%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) PKI
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 9 (40.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (36.36%) Agile
5 4 (18.18%) Data Science
5 4 (18.18%) DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) LLM
5 4 (18.18%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.64%) Business Transformation
6 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
6 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (13.64%) Incident Response
6 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.64%) SDET
6 3 (13.64%) Service Design
6 3 (13.64%) User Experience
6 3 (13.64%) UX Design
6 3 (13.64%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.55%) CISM
2 1 (4.55%) CISSP
2 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.55%) PgMP
2 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Podman
1 1 (4.55%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) Zscaler